Search for a Heavy Neutral Particle Decaying to eμ, eτ, or μτ in pp Collisions at √s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS Detector
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Taylor, Frank E.
Date Issued
July 2015
Journal
Physical Review Letters
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American Physical Society
Citation
Aad, G., B. Abbott, J. Abdallah, O. Abdinov, R. Aben, M. Abolins, O. S. AbouZeid, et al. “Search for a Heavy Neutral Particle Decaying to eμ, eτ, or μτ in pp Collisions at √s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS Detector.” Physical Review Letters 115, no. 3 (July 2015). © 2015 CERN, for the ATLAS Collaboration
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Abstract
This Letter presents a search for a heavy neutral particle decaying into an opposite-sign different-flavor dilepton pair, e[superscript ±]μ[superscript ∓], e[superscript ±]τ[superscript ∓], or μ[superscript ±]τ[superscript ∓] using 20.3 fb[superscript −1] of pp collision data at √s = 8 TeV collected by the ATLAS detector at the LHC. The numbers of observed candidate events are compatible with the standard model expectations. Limits are set on the cross section of new phenomena in two scenarios: the production of [~ over ν][subscript τ] in R-parity-violating supersymmetric models and the production of a lepton-flavor-violating Z′ vector boson.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
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https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.031801